How One Colts Fan Follows the Team from Prison

[Puck]

Fuck Baltimore

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Puck

Fuck Baltimore

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If there were no Baltimore Colts in the first place, there would be no Indianapolis Colts in the 2nd place.

Indianapolis might not have a football team at all, and if they did, they wouldn't be named "the Colts."


That's the origins of the team that you root for every week, month, and year.

o

[Puck]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o

If there were no Baltimore Colts in the first place, there would be no Indianapolis Colts in the 2nd place.

Indianapolis might not have a football team at all, and if they did, they wouldn't be named "the Colts."


That's the origins of the team that you root for every week, month, and year.

o

Bullshit. Indianapolis would have gotten a team just like any other expansion team. You might as well start digging up info on the Miami Seahawks because they were the origin of the Colts.

[Dewey 5]

Originally Posted by Puck

Fuck Baltimore

I'm sure Cleveland agrees.

[Puck]

I'll add this

Fuck Unitas, Fuck Jones, Fuck Morral and anyone else who played for the Colts before 1984. They had nothing to do with the team coming to Indy.... If I ever buy the Colts all those fuckers names are coming out of the ring of honor.

I'd say fuck Bob Irsay but he did outsmart the city of Baltimore. The only person from before 1984 that I am OK with is Jim Irsay....

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Puck

I'll add this

Fuck Unitas, Fuck Jones, Fuck Morral and anyone else who played for the Colts before 1984. They had nothing to do with the team coming to Indy.... If I ever buy the Colts all those fuckers names are coming out of the ring of honor.

I'd say fuck Bob Irsay but he did outsmart the city of Baltimore. The only person from before 1984 that I am OK with is Jim Irsay....

I'm sorry, but I don't share your sentiment.

[Puck]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

I'm sorry, but I don't share your sentiment.

It's a free world.... I wish they would have just renamed the team when they came here. Then we wouldnt have to hear about the Browns

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Puck

It's a free world.... I wish they would have just renamed the team when they came here. Then we wouldnt have to hear about the Browns

Easier for you to say. I was a Baltimore Colts fan that needed a team to follow. I never jumped ship when the team moved, so I have lived through all of the lean years just like you. I like Irsay just believe in the shoe, and everything it represents from 1953 and on.

Unitas, Berry, Ameche, Moore, Donovan, Marchetti, Parker, Jones, Mitchell, Carr, Dutton...why would you not want to accept legends like this?

[Puck]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Easier for you to say. I was a Baltimore Colts fan that needed a team to follow. I never jumped ship when the team moved, so I have lived through all of the lean years just like you. I like Irsay just believe in the shoe, and everything it represents from 1953 and on.

Unitas, Berry, Ameche, Moore, Donovan, Marchetti, Parker, Jones, Mitchell, Carr, Dutton...why would you not want to accept legends like this?

I have never been a Baltimore fan..... I was a Steeler fan before the colts moved. Hated the Baltimorons

[NJColtsFan]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Easier for you to say. I was a Baltimore Colts fan that needed a team to follow. I never jumped ship when the team moved, so I have lived through all of the lean years just like you. I like Irsay just believe in the shoe, and everything it represents from 1953 and on.

Unitas, Berry, Ameche, Moore, Donovan, Marchetti, Parker, Jones, Mitchell, Carr, Dutton...why would you not want to accept legends like this?

After all these years, the narrative is still misunderstood. Baltimore Colts fans didn’t control whether their team stayed or moved. Baltimore Colts fans didn’t just reside in Baltimore, they were Marylanders (eastern and western shore), Delawareans, Pennsylvanians, etc. They loved their team. When the move occurred, hearts were broken. Some of us continued to follow the team and others couldn’t forgive and forget. For those of who remained a fan throughout, all Colts history is important, not just the Baltimore era or Indy era.